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Tools Choices

The right tool choices are key to a good project.

CI/CD tool

These build tools are evaluated:

• Github Actions
• Travis CI
• Jenkins

Checks for determining CI/CD tool

• Must be available to the community
• No/less maintenance
• Integratable with Github (because that’s where our repositories are)

Github Actions

Pros

• Upcoming tool, really active in developing
• Free tool for public Github repositories (which CoMPAS is)
• Integrates perfectly with Github repositories

Cons

• Software is proprietary
• Adoption is growing within Alliander

Travis CI

Pros

• Very much used CI/CD tool for Open Source projects

Cons

• Not used within Alliander, so no experience or know-how
• No advantages compared to the other evaluated tools

Jenkins

Pros

• Lots of experience within Alliander
• Well known in the industry of Software automation

Cons

• Not easy to make public (which is what we want)
• Security of Jenkins often has security leaks
• Jenkins is being replaced within Alliander

Advice

Github Actions is the way to go for us.

Because we host our repositories in Github, Github Actions is easily integratable, free and very flexible. We can use it in combination with SonarCloud for example for static code analysis. And above all, everyone can access it.